Great.. as you know my 20" Display died and I was waiting to see if they would put cameras and mics in the new displays. They did. They also put TB on it.How the F am I sposed to hook up a new TB display to an ancient, 2 year old tower that only sports a measly Mini display connector AND a DVI connnector??

This procedure will install a version of the OS X Lion that is compatible with the Mac it was created with. Using this Lion system with a different kind of Mac may produce unpredictable results.

Well that's new, and kind of a step towards Windows installations. Pre-Lion any HD could boot any Mac as long as the version was in specs for the machine. For example I have external drives for maintenance. The 10.5.8 one can boot anything from a G4 to an Intel model. The 10.6.8 one can only boot Intels but it can boot any Intel. I'll have to check out more before passing judgement but it seems that they're making them harder to service.

Regarding OS the version being in specs for the hardware, Windows has a huge leg up on that. I have what's called Hiren's boot diagnostic CDs for Windows machines. It runs a version of mini-XP that can boot just about any machine. It can boot brand new Core i7s or 13 year old Celerons.

I'm understanding that to mean that it will only work with his system that he created the Franken-Installer with..

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This procedure will install a version of the OS X Lion that is compatible with the Mac it was created with. Using this Lion system with a different kind of Mac may produce unpredictable results.

The App Store shows that the DL/upgrade was 'installed'; i.e.: finished, I guess. However, following the instructions from the Apple Support page I attached a 16 GB USB2 flash drive to the iMac. And after formatting it (according to the instructions), I was able to 'click' on 'install' again and install it on the flash drive. Unfortunately, this takes a long time... But we'll see what happens after that.

It 'mysteriously' disappeared but it's back now after half an hour. And I'm trying to follow those instructions from the Apple Support page; i.e.: installing it on an external drive. I'm still wondering why it wouldn't go? Maybe it got 'confused' by the WinXP partition?

How the F am I sposed to hook up a new TB display to an ancient, 2 year old tower that only sports a measly Mini display connector AND a DVI connnector??

I know that the TB port on the new iMac supports a Mini DisplayPort adapter for a second monitor, but they say the new monitors need "Thunderbolt-enabled Mac computer, including MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac mini, and iMac"

Your MacPro has a Mini DisplayPort, wonder if it would work with yours, but they don't mention the MP in the quote above.

It 'mysteriously' disappeared but it's back now after half an hour. And I'm trying to follow those instructions from the Apple Support page; i.e.: installing it on an external drive. I'm still wondering why it wouldn't go? Maybe it got 'confused' by the WinXP partition?

(from Apple Support concerning the 'error' message)

"The disk has a non-standard Boot Camp partition setup, where further partitioning was performed after running Boot Camp Assistant, or the configuration that Boot Camp Assistant created was manually modified."

I thought that even though you bought it, you could re download it. I bet if you had hit the purchase button again, you would get a window saying that you had already purchased it, would you like to download it for free? Just like the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch

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